ELC Bulletin - Term 2, Week 6

ELC UPDATES AND REMINDERS – 21.5.24

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NOTICE FROM HEAD OF PRIMARY

A big thank you to all students, staff and parents involved in today's Interhouse Cross Country Carnival. The weather was perfect for the early races and although it was warmer later on, our students' determination to run did not waiver.

There are always so many highlights when spending time watching the children give their best at a sport that revolves heavily around effort. It certainly brought a smile to my face watching the final sprint to the finish line as students who had run close for the whole race decided to put in everything they had to make up one more place in the end. A tough challenge to overcome is when students fall, particularly at the beginning of a race, but they get up, brush themselves off and put in the big strides to try to catch up. This is showing resilience.

Another highlight for these events is the sportsmanship. It was great to see students who, after winning or coming in the top places, took the time to high five other competitors as they finished. Likewise, our competitors who had battled through to the end were being met with cheers and applause for their own individual effort.

Mr Barton will provide more details next week with age champions and runners up, but importantly the House Shield for our 2024 Interhouse Cross Country was won by Challen House. Well done to all of the children in that House, as well as all the other competitors who made today a wonderful event.

As always, Mr Barton had a well organised carnival and I would like to thank him and the other staff who worked to provide this opportunity for our students.

Mark Douglas, Head of Primary School

NOTICE FROM DEPUTY HEAD OF PRIMARY – EARLY LEARNING (TBC)

Well done to all Pre-Primary and Year 1 children for participating in the 2024 Primary School Cross Country today. Thank you to those watching for your positive encouragement. We are very proud of the children for joining in and doing their best.

It is with great sadness that I advise you that the father of one of our current Pre-Primary students, Logan Wade, died unexpectedly last week. The School has been in contact with Logan’s family, to offer our support. As a staff and as a community, we will certainly do all we can to support them at this terribly sad time.

MEAL TRAIN

Pre-Primary families are already aware of this sad news and a parent group have arranged a MEAL TRAIN. They invite other ELC families to volunteer to support Logan and her family by providing a meal for them. MEAL TRAIN allows you to say what you would like to provide, and see what others are planning so they don’t get 40 lasagnes! If you don’t want to cook, you can provide a voucher (note that on the MEAL Train schedule). There are no allergies to consider.

This is the link if you would like to volunteer.
https://mealtrain.com/gmz73o

Linda Sweet, Deputy Head of Primary – Early Learning

KINDY HEALTH CHECKS

The Community Nurse assigned to our School, Stacey Kelly, will be attending St Mark’s during Weeks 9 and 10 this term to carry out general health checks (including sight and hearing tests) for our Kindergarten students. Information was provided to parents in Term 1 regarding this Government initiative. The health checks will take place in the Early Learning Centre during the school day. Forms were sent home early in Term 1 for parents to complete and return. The Nurse will only check the children whose parents have given permission for her to do so.

TERM 2 - ELC EVENT REMINDERS

WEEK 9

• KINDY HEALTH CHECKS – this week and next

(Government Community Nurse in the ELC)

WEEK 10

• K-12 EMERGENCY DRILL – Monday 17 June

• KINDY HEALTH CHECKS – continue this week

(Government Community Nurse in the ELC)

• PP-Y12 SEMESTER 1 REPORTS - released on SEQTA this week

(Semester 1 Reports are not prepared for Kindergarten. They will only receive Reports at the end of the year.)

• PP & Y1 HOUSE ACTIVITY DAY – Friday 21 June

Pre-Primary and Year 1 students will participate in various fun activities in their House groups..

They will need to wear their House shirts on this day.

• LAST DAY OF TERM 2 – Friday 21 June

Students will finish at the normal time on this day for a three-week mid-year break.

TERM 3

• FIRST DAY OF TERM 3 – Tuesday 16 July

Kindy Starfish will attend on Tuesday and Wednesday of Week 1

Kindy Turtles will attend on Thursday and Friday of Week 1

NEW LINKS CREATED 18.9.24. FOR UPCYCLING AND WATERING ROSTERS:
Please follow the links provided below to add your name to one of the rosters if you are able to assist. Thank you.

These are shared documents which all ELC parents are able to view.

• ELC UPCYCLING ROSTER (Term 4 roster available):
  ELC Shared Upcycling Roster
  
  

• ELC WATERING AND OTHER OUTDOOR TASKS (Term 4 roster available):
  ELC Outdoor Enviro Volunteer Roster
  
  
• OTHER ELC PARENT HOUR OPPORTUNITIES (None at the moment)

Parents will be advised via the Weekly Bulletins or Class SEESAW pages when opportunities do become available. Parents will be able to access the shared roster via the link provided below to add their names for the advertised task(s).
2024 ELC Various Tasks Roster

Flyers are being sent home this week from the Scholastic Book Club. If any families are interested in purchasing books, please note that orders and payments are ONLINE only at https://mybookclubs.scholastic.com.au/parent/login.aspx and need to be submitted before Wednesday 5 June 2024. If you have any queries, please email primarylibrary@stmarks.wa.edu.au

This term we will be collecting items to donate to the Joondalup Grace Anglican Church as part of their outreach program. To help us with this task we are asking for donations of the following items from the ELC and Primary School community:

• ELC: Cup two-minute noodles only
• YEAR 2: Ring pull tin meals: Heinz big eats or harvest meals
• YEAR 3: Ring pull tins of tuna or salmon or sardines
• YEAR 4: Ring pull chunky tin soups
• YEAR 5: Small and large UHL milk

Collection boxes will be in the ELC, Year 2/3 block and Year 4/5 block for you to place your donations in. Please may we ask that every family contributes to this valuable cause. Our Primary School Global Citizenship motto is ‘Be the change you want to see happen’. We ask you please help us to achieve this! Thank you.

The flyer for this worthy cause can be found here

The 2024 Premier’s Reading Challenge was launched last week. It will run from 6 May until 6 September and is open to all school children in Western Australia, Kindy to Year 10. Establishing a life-long love of reading is so important in the development of students’ literacy skills. The challenge program is designed to encourage students’ reading enjoyment and in turn, their future outcomes. Register for the challenge here, log the books you read and you’ll be entered into the draw to win weekly prizes and prizes for the school. I look forward to seeing lots of our children participate in the Challenge - happy reading!
Mrs Fransz, Primary Library teacher